STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Lilongwe, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Lilongwe

Malawi, 2015 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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How often drink (nalcohol)

Data file: stsl_stsf_partb

Overview

Valid: 10

Invalid: 158

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 38

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

If Q 21.1(alcohol): Have you consumed alcohol (beer, kachasu, masese, chibuku, sachets etc ...) within the past 12 months? = yes, Over the last 12 months, on average, how often have you had at least one alcoholic drink?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Daily	1	10%
2	5-6 days per week	2	20%
3	1-4 days per week	1	10%
4	1-3 days per month	4	40%
5	Less than once a month	2	20%
Sysmiss		158

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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